Images of mistakes - good or bad..

[Brian Bullen]

I thought the bag mag was loaded with fresh film but my memory isn't what it used to be! 12 4x5 sheets of double exposure goodness
Arista edu 400
Phone pic of print

[Ricardo de Oliveira]

Late in the night I was in my lab/bathroom tray developing a sheet of 4x5 mammography film pinhole when my neighbour started to have, I don't know, like, an asthma attack. As I positioned my ear by the wall to better understand what was going on I hitted by accident the light switch. It was just half a second but...

[Ramiro Elena]

Hahahaha that is hilarious Ricardo. For a moment it seemed like you had to sacrifice your development to save your neighbor...

[Christo.Stankulov]

I like it Ricardo

[Christo.Stankulov]

sinar P2 8x10
Heliar 300/4.5
Ilford HP5+@1000 asa
double exposure by mistake

[Kav]

I found two more photos from my trip to Afghanistan that I had not developed. They had a metal gloss to them that I could not figure out how it got there. They were developed with fresh chemistry and washed properly. I really have no idea why the metallic splotches, or brown staining happened here. They are both like this.

Direct Positive Paper:

[JoeV]

An unintentional double-exposure on a grade 2 paper negative.

~Joe

Rio_Grande004a by jvcabacus, on Flickr

[kintatsu]

I can think of 2 bad ones of my own making. The first was pulling the slide on the wrong side of the holder, and actually exposing the unopened side.

Even worse, this summer I was in the Alps for a long weekend with the family. I got up at 5 am and went out to a lake under the Zugspitze and made 4 shots on Provia 100f. One was way overexposed, as I forgot my filters in use on the previous B&W shot weren't in play and calculated the factor in. The worst loss, though, was the one shot that I really wanted to bring home, and actually got almost perfect, was lost to a "brain fart." I thought I had all the slide film removed and boxed up and that 1 shot was still in the holder when I opened it up. One good thing, perhaps, is that it obviates the need for another trip, and maybe some more Provia.

[StoneNYC]

All my best shots lately are happening in holders that I forgot to put film in... This is not a joke, it's frustrating...

[D-tach]

I swear it wasn't a double exposure but there IS a second tree in the sky - could this be due to a reflection or so? The sun was just left out of the frame and I'm pretty sure I blocked it with my body while holding the ND filter in front of the lens... weird stuff. Perhaps the shutter didn't close immediately...



Deardorff - Imagon 250 - Fomapan 200 (EI 50) 5x7 - Pyrocat HD